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Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

dexen wrote: post #5
rdevnull wrote: post #2

thanks for posting this - I am behind 1.ai so if you have any question ask away :)

Why is there no paid subscription option? Do you have any plans of such? I'd like to upgrade to a paid, supported service if my website gets any traction.

Hi dexen, the reason is that there are already many excellent (or so we hear) options for paid hosting /apps deployment and we think that there isn't a need for yet another another good service (unless you can really make a difference. We had some ideas in this direction like with having all the apps cloned in 3 live servers in different locations including the mysql database but this was just an idea) but we do give some support through the forums and occasionally via email :)

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by mdasen »

The initial question that comes to mind is: how will this be sustainable? It's all well and good to offer this service, but will it be a drain on your finances 6 months down the road? Will it become a drain if more than 250 people sign up for it? I understand that one can get a server with 128GB of SSD storage, quad core, and 16GB of RAM for around $100/mo if one looks enough, but that would only serve 256 people at your quotas. Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?

As a follow-up: why should I use Dotgeek over Heroku or AppFog? Both of those are commercial offerings with a free tier, but their commercial pricing makes me a lot more confident that it will stick around. What are you offering that trumps their offering?

Kudos for trying things (and I'm not trying to sound harsh at all). Still, this feels like it would have been more interesting in 2006 than today where we have many options at free tiers and even more paid services to choose from. I guess I'm just wondering why I would want to sign up for this rather than something else. If this is more about learning systems administration, then it's an awesome project and I'm sure you'll learn a lot and gain great experience. It's awesome to try things even if they aren't meant to be commercial alternative services just to get the experience of doing them.

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

lignuist wrote: post #4
rdevnull wrote: post #2

thanks for posting this - I am behind 1.ai so if you have any question ask away :)

How did you get the domain?

I have all the numbers 0 to 9.ai I was early in the day when they opened registrations :)

0.ai is a clone of 1.ai at the moment

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